The escolar, Lepidocybium flavobrunneum, is a species of fish in the family Gempylidae, the only species in the genus Lepidocybium. It is found in deep (200–885 m) tropical and temperate waters around the world. It is also marketed as "butterfish".
The escolar is dark brown in colour, growing darker with age until it is quite black. It is a fast-swimming fish with a prominent lateral keel and multiple finlets. It grows up to 2 m in length.
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The escolar, Lepidocybium flavobrunneum, is a species of fish in the family Gempylidae, the only species in the genus Lepidocybium. It is found in deep (200–885 m) tropical and temperate waters around the world. It is also marketed as "butterfish".
The escolar is dark brown in colour, growing darker with age until it is quite black. It is a fast-swimming fish with a prominent lateral keel and multiple finlets. It grows up to 2 m in length.
Escolar is consumed in several European and Asian countries, as well as in the USA, sometimes raw as sushi or sashimi. It may be sold as "white tuna" - a term also used for the albacore - or as "super white tuna" to distinguish it from the albacore. Escolar is also sold misleadingly as "butterfish", "oilfish" and "Hawaiian butter fish"; in Hawaii and Fiji, it is known as walu. Like oilfish, a related species with similar consumption consequences, escolar is also sometimes deceptively sold under the name of an entirely different species of fish, most...
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